Geralyn Broder Murray·Sep 13, 2022Parenthood’s Long Goodbye: This is When We Let Go.At my daughter’s preschool, they called it the waving window. It was at the back of the classroom and at morning drop-off, your child could…A response icon2A response icon2
Geralyn Broder Murray·May 28, 2021After a particularly contentious custody battle in the 1970s, my mother reluctantly loaded me onto…Soon after we’d arrived at his house in Pacific Grove, Dad pointed out the change jar on his dresser; I was welcome to help myself to it…
Geralyn Broder Murray·Sep 9, 2020Want to save the republic? Find your Kippy Kauffman.Way back in January, Kippy and I met under terrible circumstances: her daughter Haley’s boyfriend Greg had been in a serious accident and…
Geralyn Broder Murray·Aug 10, 2020Home is wherever you are.Years ago, when my kids were small, and we were in Los Angeles for Thanksgiving— at the home of my mother — my then six-year old daughter…
Geralyn Broder Murray·Mar 31, 2020Ring Theory, Pandemic Edition: Comfort In, Dump Out, Switch.Usually, with trauma and grief, there’s a single person or a couple or one family who is at the core of what’s happened. I love…
Geralyn Broder Murray·Jan 13, 2016Detachment ParentingBefore my daughter was even twenty-four hours old, I was learning to let go.A response icon1A response icon1
